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John Bach

Actor

John Bach’s screen career spans more than 90 roles. His CV includes a memorably loopy cameo in Goodbye Pork Pie, and starring roles in movie The Lost Tribe (playing twin brothers), and TV shows Roche (as truck driver Mick Roche) and Duggan (as detective John Duggan). En route, Bach has worked extensively in Australia, and played everyone from bus drivers to media barons — and from robbers to Roman senators.

It's a danger to be well-known. John Bach, on how the character matters more than the actor behind it, The Listener, 18 March 1991,page 66

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Reunion

2020, As: Jack - Film

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Nancy Wake: The White Mouse

2014, As: Henry's father - Television

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Hope and Wire

2014, As: Vernon (Len's friend) - Television

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Utu Redux

2013, As: Belcher - Film

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Rest for the Wicked

2011, As: Frank - Film

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This is Not My Life - First Episode

2010, As: Harry Sheridan - Television

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This is Not My Life

2010, As: Harry Sheridan - Television

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Piece of My Heart

2009, As: Mike - Television

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A Tall Long Faced Tale

2008, As: Bridge builder, Voices - Television

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The Tattooist

2007, As: Lazlo McFadden - Film

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Leo's Pride

2006, Narrator - Television

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Aspiring

2006, Narrator - Television

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The Man Who Couldn't Dance

2005, As: Dancing Man - Short Film

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003, As: Madril - Film

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In Search of the Moa

2002, Narrator - Television

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002, As: Madril - Film

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A Tale of Three Chimps

2001, Narrator - International Version - Television

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Clare

2000, As: Dr Herbert Green - Television

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Duggan

1999, As: Duggan - Television

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Duggan: A Shadow of Doubt

1999, As: John Duggan - Television

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William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale: Obsession in August

1998, As: The Earl of Sackville - Television

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Duggan: Sins of the Fathers

1998, As: John Duggan - Television

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Duggan: Death in Paradise

1997, As: John Duggan - Television

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The Last Tattoo

1994, As: Austen Leech - Film

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Typhon's People

1993, As: Daniel Harrington - Television

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Old Scores

1991, As: Ewen Murray - Film

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Pallet on the Floor

1986, As: Jack Voot - Film

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Roche - First Episode

1985, As: Mick Roche - Television

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Heart of the Stag

1984, As: Shearing gang member - Film

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Inside Straight

1984, As: Detective Sergeant Bill MacLean - Television

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Iris

1984, As: Mike (the director) - Television

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Wild Horses

1984, As: Jack - Film

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Close to Home - Final Episode

1983, As: Tome Hearte - Television

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The Lost Tribe

1983, As: Max and Edward Scarry - Film

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Utu

1983, As: Belcher - Film

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Battletruck

1982, As: Bone - Film

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Loose Enz - Graham's Mum and the Goulden Tour

1982, As: Ron - Television

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Bad Blood

1982, As: Bert Cropp - Film

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Carry Me Back

1982, As: Winton - Film

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Goodbye Pork Pie

1981, As: Snout - Film

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Kaleidoscope - Geoff Murphy and Andrew Brown

1981, Subject - Television

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Sea Urchins

1980, As: Harvey - Television

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt

1980, As: Detective Murray Jeffries - Film

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Mortimer's Patch

1980, As: Kevin Cartwright - Television

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The Gathering

1979, As: Lou - Television

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The Mad Dog Gang Meets Rotten Fred and Ratsguts (TV movie)

1978, As: Wilkie - Television

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Joe and Koro - High Society

1977, As: Nigel - Television

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The Governor 6 - To the Death (Episode Six)

1977, As: John Sheehan - Television

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Three New Zealanders: Ngaio Marsh

1977, As: Hamlet - Television

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Wild Man

1977, As: Barman - Film

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Close to Home - First Episode

1975, As: Tom - Television

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Richard Pearse

1975, As: Jack Pearse - Television

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The Games Affair

1974, As: Villain - Television

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The Games Affair - The Porcelain Runner (Episode Two)

1974, As: Villain - Television